soundtracker - Man Page
a tracker for gnome that supports .xm files
Synopsis
soundtracker
Description
This manual page documents briefly soundtracker.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has some documentation in /usr/share/doc/soundtracker which will be more uptodate than this man page.
soundtracker is a program that allows one to arrange many sound samples into a tune, comprising of multiple `tracks' which are mixed together, typically in software.
Using
Note that some functions are only accessible using the keyboard. These are all important key combinations, mostly inspired by the great Amiga ProTracker (most alphanumeric keys are mapped to a piano keyboard):
Track Editor
- Right Ctrl
Play Song
- Right Alt
Play Pattern
- Right Shift
Record (Play Pattern & Edit On) -- not yet!
- Space
Stop Playing; edit mode on/off
- F1 ... F7
Change editing octave
- Left Ctrl-1 ... -8
Change jump value
- CrsrUp / Down
Walk around in current pattern
- PgUp / Down
Walk around in current pattern, quickly
- F9
Jump to position 0
- F10
Jump to position L / 4
- F11
Jump to position L / 2
- F12
Jump to position 3 * L / 4
- CrsrLeft / Right
Change pattern column and/or channel
- Tab
Skip to same column in next channel
- Left Ctrl - CrsrLeft
Previous Instrument (faster with Left Shift)
- Left Ctrl - CrsrRight
Next Instrument (faster with Left Shift)
- Left Ctrl - CrsrDown
Previous Sample (faster with Left Shift)
- Left Ctrl - CrsrUp
Next Sample (faster with Left Shift)
- Left Alt - CrsrLeft
Previous Pattern (faster with Left Shift)
- Left Alt - CrsrRight
Next Pattern (faster with Left Shift)
- Left Ctrl - B
Start marking a block (one track horizontally)
- Left Ctrl - C
Copy block
- Left Ctrl - X
Cut block
- Left Ctrl - V
Paste block and advance to end
- Left Shift - F3
Cut track
- Left Shift - F4
Copy track
- Left Shift - F5
Paste track
- Left Alt - F3
Cut pattern
- Left Alt - F4
Copy pattern
- Left Alt - F5
Paste pattern
- Any other keys
Play notes on the keyboard.
Sample Editor
Hold Shift and use left / right mouse buttons to set the loop points in the sample display.
See Also
If you want to know more about tracking in general, http://www.united-trackers.org/ has a lot of resources.
Also see the SoundTracker homepage, http://www.soundtracker.org/
SoundTracker still needs detailed documentation. If you want to help out with this, you should become familiar with DocBook or similar SGML tools first.
Author
Michael Krause [ raw style / lego ] <m.krause@tu-harburg.de> wrote SoundTracker.
This manual page was mostly lifted from /usr/share/doc/soundtracker/README by Frankie Fisher <frankie@skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Bugs
This documentation is possibly outdated.